Bobby Balderrama Quotes
When we started getting calls from record stores that we were sold out, we realized something was happening. It wasn't just our family!
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.
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I think record stores play a huge part in discovering new music. When I was growing up I would spend hours going through all the bins looking for something new that seemed interesting to me and that could relate to what I was listening to at the time. This is why I want to support National Record Store Day.
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When we started getting calls from record stores that we were sold out, we realized something was happening. It wasn't just our family!
